their kids, too. best of luck and keep in touch, okay? >> thank you so much. i hope the message can get out there. >> #bookharvest folks, let's get it started. thank you and take care. thank you so much for starting your morning with us. the next hour of your "new day" starts right now. running from the flames. hundreds of homes threatened by a wildfire in drought stricken california. >> and republican attacks on hillary clinton. would less attacks be on her if she was not the only democratic presidential candidate. >> this is breaking news. >> i am christi paul.

>> i am joe johns. >> we have to get to breaking news out of southern california this hour. more than 300 firefighters are racing to battle a raging brushfire there. >> this fire broke out around 6:00 last night around corona, california, an hour outside of los angeles, and it already forced evacuations of 300 families. >> i am quite scared for my family, and don't know what i need to do, if i need to get back and start planning evacuations, or what? >> there's new housing developments. if it goes further the other direction, there's a lot of new housing. >> 14 crews are on the screen, we understand right now, and the captain of the riverside fire department joining us on the phone. we understand at 6:00 a.m. when things were seeming to take

shape, this is 13 and 14 hours in, and landfall 300 acres. >> we have seen humidity levels come up to 90%, and the wind dissipated, and we made a lot of progress overnight, and we still have a lot of fire line to go with only 15% containment. >> a woman was just talking about a new development going up, and there are homes that would be just frames going up very quickly, and how close is the fire to that development? >> approximately half a mile away from that development. fortunately, the fire is burning away from that area, but we have crews in structure defense protecting those properties. >> the drought is something we have been watching in california for the last hour and a half.

>> this area has not seen water in years, and it's difficult due to the drought. these fuels are in critical level, so it's a recipe for explosive fire growth. >> you mentioned 300 firefighters, but it was 300 homes in danger as well of evacuations, and where are those people going? >> they are going to the riley gymnasium being staffed by red cross, but we are happy to report, we have lifted the evacuation partially, so some are being able to go home as we speak. >> when we started the show a couple hours ago, it was 15% contained and are you confident you will be able to make progress, and what is the containment now? >> i am sure the containment number overnight will go up,

along with the acreage, and that's something we will hear when the operations come in off the line. >> thank you for giving us the update. our thoughts are with you and the crews and families. best of luck. >> thank you. ivan cabrera joining us now. if i heard him right, there is some ground that has not seen water in years? >> we are talking about areas that don't get into the fires, and they are because we are talking about the exceptional drought in california. he mentioned a couple things that are helping the firefighting efforts, and humidity went up and the temperatures went down, and i think we will have higher temperatures as we get the warming, and the humidity will crash by later this afternoon, and hopefully they got good containment overnight, and hopefully they can update the 15%, and 300 acres have burned across the area.

here is the moisture trying to come in. it's not going to make it. we have the moisture in place because the overnight temperatures go down, and by later this afternoon we will get the humidities back to 25 and reverse that through the overnight, and the progress will be in the overnight hours. by the time we get into the afternoon, we will have temperatures in the 80s, and the winds will gust from 20 to 25 miles per hour as we see on our graphic here by the time we get into the afternoon. the fire itself creating its own wind, and that creates erratic situations for the firefighters here. hilly terrain, that's an issue and that's a hindrance to get it under control quickly, but we are not talking about 50-mile-per-hour winds that will take things out of control and we are not talking about conditions where there are temperatures in the 90s here. yeah, wish we could get water on

here, but that's not going to happen. we are technically in the dry season in california, so no rain over the next few days. >> ivan, thank you so much. and then rescue crews rushing to rescue hundreds of people after a boat capsized. let's bring in our correspondent. what do we know about the accident? >> reporter: the sos came, and the ship was in trouble then. they alerted the nearest merchant vessel in the area, and everybody went to one side of the boat and that's what caused it to capsize and the water was

cold and it was dark, and the chances of survival are slim, and by the time the rest of the authorities got there there was very few people survived, and we are understand 50 people are making their way on a rescue vessel and they will be interviewed to find out the dynamics of the human trafficking and what led to this disaster. >> there was another migrant ship that capsized a few days ago. as the u.n. or any other ngo tried to come in with some fix for this problem of people taking this dangerous crossing to get out of the africa conflict zone? >> reporter: well, you know, the european union has been talking about this for a very long time. they got a meeting set up in may to present an agenda, but this has to be stopped in libya or africa, and some of them have been on the move for weeks if not longer to try and get to the

ports in libya. it's first by land and then by sea, and they feel the need for these desperate people that want to get to europe at all costs. many of the people that do make it say they are well worth the risk, and they are leaving a much more difficult situation, so risking their lives is better than saying in africa in many ways. >> typically you have a lot of people up top at the ship, but people in the hold would be the people who would be more exposed to danger were it to list, i would assume? >> reporter: on the sreufishing vessels, those are the cheaper tickets. people that want to be out on the upper deck, which is the prime space pay a little more

for that service, but those are the people, you know, in this particular case that probably are the ones that survive, and the people jam packed into the holes of the ships have no way to get out, and one could imagine the panic you think you have if your ship is going under anyway. you try to get to the boat and it's all over at that point. >> unthinkable. thank you so much for that barbie. we will be following that closely. we all know it. you have seen the ad. hillary clinton is running for president. but a lot of people are asking this question, is the spotlight too light on the former secretary of state? does she need a democratic challenger to be successful in the white house? >> 6 and believing that a single life can be made better by millions of others. healthier takes somebody who can power modern health care...

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. hillary clinton set to make a big stop in the crucial primary state of new hampshire tomorrow, and this comes after several of her top gop rivals took shots at the only 2016 democratic presidential candidate, and during the final day of the republican summit, they mocked her highly criticized trip to chipotle, and her use of personal e-mail accounts. hillary clinton doesn't have any

democratic candidates to compete with so far, and do you think she needs challenger? >> the best way to get better at champagning is by champagning, and hillary clinton and her past campaigns has been better and at her best against a real challenge. in 2000, she rose to the fight, and 2008, she was doing hard core retail campaigning, and she is not going to have that moment in 2016, that's clear for her. democrats, think about it like spring training. they would like to see her have a little practice before she gets to the general election, and that's probably not going to happen for her. >> you talk to people at the dinner parties in washington, and there are people that say she is not a very good campaigner, and she has a glass

jaw if she gets hit with a good comm political punch, the whole organization folds, and is it more of mixing it up or is it more about hillary clinton? >> i think hillary clinton, it's personal to her. she is not bill clinton. retail campaigning has never been her strong suit. she has been the policy person and the strategy person but never really great in large groups, especially. that's why her campaign has her out there with small groups in areas that she has been good at before, when she has been able to be emotional and not on the defensive and have one-on-one conversations with people, and that's artificial and staged and that will not be able to last forever, and to the benefit of not having an opponent, you will win the primary anyway, and how good of a candidate are you going to be, and how good can

she be without getting hard core practice before she really needs to. >> let's go to the rios question. >> cnn interview, a female ceo, listen to what she said about having a female president. >> we have had people like margaret thatcher, and who very successfully run countries. >> they do. >> so what about those women? >> i am not saying that people can't -- every woman should aspire to be as great as she can be, and build businesses and do amazing things and be a doctor and lawyer, and i by no means said i don't support women, and i was speaking of one particular position and if a woman wants a run for it, go ahead, it doesn't mean i have to support that. i am not changing my comment in reference to hillary, and i would never vote for hillary,

and i would not be voting for a female. i do not believe in that position, in my personal opinion, should be a female. >> you hear that, and now probably not a lot of people are willing to express that sentiment on national television, but the question remains whether that sentiment still exist out there in the populist? >> there is a good bit of polling now that shows that sentiment does not exist in the populist, and 85 to 90% said yes, we are ready for a female president, and are they ready for hillary clinton to be their president? that's what it's all about. but most americans don't agree with that sentiment, and there's a growing believe saying women are better at men at leading because of their biology. the idea that a woman can't be

or shouldn't be president and is not capable to be president is not widely held. >> thank you. >> great to see you, thanks. a majority of americans say they are in favor of legalizing pot. next, my conversation with cnn's chief medical correspondent, dr. sanjay gupta on why he is so passionate about getting medical marijuana legalized in america.

21 minutes past the hour, and so good to see you. a majority of americans polled said they favor the legalization of medical marijuana. take a look. >> i never thought i would be smoking weed in the hospital. >> this is san francisco general. an academic teaching hospital that because of dr. abrams has a stash of marijuana in their pharmacy. it is stored next to all the other medications. abrams is using it to see if it can relieve chronic pain in patients with a rare blood disorder. janellea is a painter, and she

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here is a look at other stories developing this morning. french customs officers seized more than 2 tons of cocaine from a sailboat. one venezuelan and two nashals arrested. the value of the cocaine seized is estimated at more than $5 million. and then a bus carrying students caught fire on a ram. some of the students are blaming the driver for not stopping when the bus started having mechanical issues. the cause of the fire, of course, is under investigation now. >> that looks terrible. >> thank goodness they got out

all right. thank you. we hope you make good memories today. "inside politics" with john king starts right now. >> thank you for sticking around. >> this has been a blast. >> i am glad you think so. a leader from yesterday began a campaign for president brought us back to yesterday. >> counter point. >> we need to build tomorrow, not yesterday. >> hillary clinton opens with a more casual touch. the next stop, new hampshire. the republicans spent the weekend targeting her and each other. >> there's a few groups in our party that